Paul Babinski @paulbabinski.bsky.social Department of Religion, UGA
Recent publications
On the study of looted Qur'ans (with Jan Loop): https://brill.com/view/journals/erl/9/3/article-p239_001.xml
On manuscript catalogs: https://www.academia.edu/125336554/The_Manuscript_Catalog_proofs
Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/
Taylor Institution Library (Taylorian) @tayoxford.bsky.social Taylor Institution Library, part of the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford. Covers modern European languages & literatures with a teaching collection and specialist research collection.
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries/taylor
Bloomsbury Philosophy @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social Think Philosophy, think Bloomsbury! Our books bring you food for (philosophical) thought and authors like Žižek, Badiou, Fanon, Midgley, Weil & more.
Theodor Dunkelgrün @theodunkelgrun.bsky.social Historian | Asst Prof @uantwerpen.be | PhD UChicago | postdocs @cam.ac.uk | Early Modern Europe & the Mediterranean, the History of Scholarship, of the Book, and of the Jews | Hagenaar | FRHistS
I come from merchants in textile, and work on text and exile
Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
My posts are my own opinions and do not reflect those of my employer.
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Royal Economic Society @resmedia.bsky.social Promoting economics. Supporting economists. Improving diversity.
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain.
Please buy my new book, Contested Commons: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
La Folie XVIIIe @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social Un forum de discussion (2005 - 2021) qui réunissait des passionnés du Siècle des Lumières.
Ancien Régime - Révolution
Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social Historian of early modern French law & society at Reed College. Prattles on about history, dogs, politics, soccer, & hoops. H-France Editor-in-Chief (www.h-france.net)
SKL🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @sklafon1.eurosky.social Pr. of 18th-century studies at Université Paris Nanterre: literature and the sciences; translation and history thereof.
Biographe officielle du Traducteur Fou™.
Translator myself.
Opinions my own.
Influenceuse ☔️
University Press Sales Bot @unipresssalesbot.bsky.social 
Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social Covering politics, elections and data at The Economist
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social eighteenth-century scholar in Heatstroke, TX. let's see how this goes.
Book: Making of Modern Cynicism, now in paperback from UVA press: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2793/
Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social Publishing exceptional research since 1899.
Home to @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social, @oxunienl.bsky.social, @modlangopen.bsky.social, and @lupdistribution.bsky.social.
linktr.ee/livunipress
Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad.bsky.social A leading institution of research and higher education dedicated to the study of world affairs, located in the heart of International Geneva.
🌍️ www.graduateinstitute.ch
Timothy Hobbs-Bagley @hobbsbagley.bsky.social Reader in Intellectual History. Retired…private scholar. Non temere credere.
Dr Zoe Screti @zoescreti.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow: Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford | Research Fellow: Harris Manchester College, Oxford | Historian of c.18th manuscript cultures esp. the intentional destruction of personal papers
Michael Moriarty @michaelmoriartyfr.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of French, University of Cambridge
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social Philosopher at University of Bristol 🏳️🌈 he/him
https://richardpettigrew.github.io
Books: Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality | Choosing for Changing Selves | Dutch Book Arguments | Accuracy and the Laws of Credence | Who Are Universities For?
Kate Wiles @katemond.bsky.social Medievalist, linguist, manuscript botherer ❧ Co-Editor of History Today ☞ LOST VOICES (Penguin/Stanford, forthcoming, one day) ❧ Posting in a personal capacity ❡
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
Renate Dürr @duerrbortolotti.bsky.social Early modernist interested in global history, the history of knowledge, and the history of slavery in early modern Germany 
J. L. Bell @boston1775.bsky.social History, analysis & unabashed gossip about Revolutionary New England. 
Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory working on nature/methods/purposes of political philosophy. Chair of 'Methods of Normative Political Theory' (ECPR). Co-Chair of 'Political Philosophy' (IPSA). Personal website: https://www.drjonathanfloyd.com
Łukasz Dulęba @lukaszduleba.bsky.social Political Theorist
Teaching: European New School of Digital Studies (EUV/AMU)
Permanent Lecturer: University of Muri
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Sheilagh Ogilvie @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social Chichele Professor of Economic History, All Souls College, Oxford
https://sheilaghogilvie.com/
Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social Journalist and author. Writes for FT, Guardian, Prospect and The Conversation. New book: Fair or Foul - the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition, out now. Visiting Prof at Bayes Business School
Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social I work with universities to help them work better. #HigherEducationPostcard #FreyaDog Liable to proselytize about #ClimateChange #HigherEducation #Consultant #Swansea #Deltiologist #SWFC
Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern History. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father.
All opinions my own.
Kerstin Maria Pahl @kerstinmpahl.bsky.social Cultural historian of 18C and 19C Europe | Author of „The Visual Worlds of Life Writing“ (LUP 2025) | Works at MPIB | Member of Die Junge Akademie | Board member of ALLEA
ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social ArtHist.net is an international, non-commercial communication and information network for art history and a member of Clio-online. ArtHist.net publishes discipline-specific, professional news from all fields of art history.
Fiscal-Military-System @fiscalmilitary.bsky.social Led by Professor Peter Wilson, this ERC project transforms the conventional narrative of the European states system.
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social Edinburgh, dragged along by a spaniel 🐕
Latest book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/europe-in-the-eleventh-century-9780198860235?cc=gb&lang=en&
Univ. website: https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/charles-west
250 Years Ago News @250yearsagonews.bsky.social The events of exactly 250 years ago today (1776). A project in conjunction with America’s semiquincentennial. By Jon Blackwell, an editor at the Wall Street Journal. Also follow me @100yearsagonews.bsky.social
DEPE-ERC project @depe-erc.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu Consolidator project ´DEPE: De-centring 18th century Political Economy: rethinking growth, wealth & welfare in the Swedish Empire’ 2024-28 • PI: Ere Nokkala • based @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social (JYU 🇫🇮) • website: rb.gy/ut8yz0
Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache @dwds.bsky.social Teil des Zentrums für digitale Lexikographie der deutschen Sprache (ZDL), beheimatet an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW)
https://www.dwds.de
Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social Historian & teacher | PostDoc at the University of Lucerne, early modern hair | PhD'ing in Bremen, slavery and people of color in Hamburg | banner: Tariq Safieh
Colin Wrafter @wraftercolin.bsky.social Retired Irish diplomat. Interests include foreign policy, Northern Ireland, human rights, development, philosophy, history.
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo. Sometimes I write comics too. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social Intellectual historian, political theorist, inarticolato informatore. I also have a Substack covering French politics and history: https://samuelharrison.substack.com/. All views are those of my employer. he/him.
Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment
- Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries
- Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions
- PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea
- Editorial Board @ Multiplay
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org The latest research in Political Science and International Relations from @universitypress.cambridge.org.
cambridge.org/politics
Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social Associate Professor of Medieval History, University of Oxford
Chair, Family Expert Reference Group, National Maternity & Neonatal Taskforce
(I can't read private messages here.)
Modern Intellectual History @mihjournal.bsky.social A forum for historians of political thought, philosophy, religion, literature, the social and natural sciences, music, architecture, and the visual arts.
Leo Doulton @leodoulton.bsky.social Sometimes director, sometimes writer, often opera, interactive theatre, Shakespeare & TTRPGs.
https://www.leodoulton.com
Jennie Ikuta @jennieci.bsky.social assoc prof of political theory • moral psychology & democracy • 📚: ‘contesting conformity’ (oxford UP) • views my own, not my employer’s • reposts ≠ endorsements •
@dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Wesleyan University
Interview series for The Nation
Essays and reviews editor at
Modern Intellectual History- U Ultán Gillen @ultan1793.bsky.social Interested in counter-revolution, but also Wolfe Tone. And Robespierre
Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org Our publications, research, and higher education solutions spread knowledge, spark curiosity and aid understanding around the world.
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Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman.bsky.social FT columnist. Also have podcast. Author of three and a half books. Four kids. Two cats. One wife. Numerous friends. Fulham fan.
Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
Jasper Prigge 🏳️🌈 @jasperprigge.bsky.social ⚖️ Anwalt | Medienrecht | Presse-/Äußerungsrecht
📰 Schutz von Meinungsfreiheit & Persönlichkeitsrechten
🔎 Juristische Einordnung aktueller Debatten
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Koch History Centre @khc-oxford.bsky.social A new institutional home in Oxford for the pursuit of world-class historical research, housed in Wadham College and the Faculty of History.
https://khc.web.ox.ac.uk/
Image credit: ©OUImages/John Cairns Photography
Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social Author and critic | Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University | Host, Irish Books Podcast | FRAS
Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy This account has moved to @LeahPrice.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://historians.social/@bookish, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh @ffsterkenburgh.bsky.social Historian of modern Germany | Assistent Professor of Political History, Utrecht University | Second book: Chancellors and Crises: Democratic Leadership from Konrad Adenauer to Olaf Scholz | First book: Wilhelm I as German Emperor: Staging the Kaiser (2024)
Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz @wannseekonferenz.bsky.social Historischer Ort der Wannsee-Konferenz vom 20. Januar 1942, heute Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte mit Ausstellungen und mehrsprachigen pädagogischen Angeboten. www.ghwk.de
Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social The online journal of @ceudeminst.bsky.social, to discuss and develop solutions to the challenges to democracy worldwide. Follow us and stay connected!
🔗 https://revdem.ceu.edu/
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger @mariatheresia.bsky.social 
Kate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social Historian of eighteenth-century Britain at University of Birmingham. Walker, swimmer, dog-lover, reader. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/smith-kate
Prof Kevin Linch @kevinlinch.bsky.social Professor of British History at the University of Leeds. Historian of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British history, especially Napoleonic Wars. Love archives. Into photography in a part-time, amateur way.
Oxford For Europe @oxford4europe.bsky.social New account for a friendly bunch of campaigners looking to expose the Brexit horrors (not hard) & campaigning to rejoin (- bit harder). Come and join us!
Previously at @oxfordforeurope
Ian Stewart @stewartian.bsky.social I wrote a book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691222516/the-celts?srsltid=AfmBOorQvQJyyJARlZquwqfL1UdsDYDrOFbYrbzGJbAcMxEvaZZkl5CV
Phil Dodds @phildodds.bsky.social Cultural and historical geographer and director of the Sound Environment Centre at Lund University, Sweden. Researching music, colonial history, aesthetics, audism, cities, sound, scale, Scotland. https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/philip-dodds 
Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social historian at Oxford co-editor of Modern British History (OUP). author of The Solidarity Economy (PUP 2024) https://shorturl.at/qxFJ8
Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social MapReader, computational history, history of infrastructure and information. Writing a book about people & highways in 18th c. France.
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Nora Baker @norabake.bsky.social Postdoc at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social History, Britain, culture, cities, selfhood, sexuality, gender, #20s30s.
Now - The Institute: The untold story of Pelmanism and its followers
Just out - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
He / him
UCL Middle East Research Centre @uclmiddleeast.bsky.social A focal point for in-depth research on the Middle East and North Africa, and its intersection with the wider world, from antiquity to the present. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/middle-east-research-centre
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
David Bather Woods @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social friendly neighbourhood Schopenhauerian
• part time Proustian • associate professor @philoswarwick.bsky.social
Prof Deborah Simonton @deborahsimonton.bsky.social Historian of eighteenth century, women, gender, towns and childhood, usually Scotland and Europe (which does include Britain).
Leif Hammer @leifhammer.bsky.social Historian, museum jack of all trades, and DPhil candidate in History (Oxford)
Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
Kate Astbury @100days1815.bsky.social Professor of French Studies, working on the culture of French Revolution and Napoleonic period. Committed to supporting the learning of languages in schools & universities and to public engagement.
Frederik Dhondt @herakleitosmd.bsky.social Legal historian @vubcore.bsky.social
Law, politics, diplomatic history. RT ≠ endorse.
https://vubcore.blogspot.com/p/frederik-dhondt.html
Diane Purkiss @janetanderson.bsky.social I love books, reading, eating, cooking, and my French bulldog Bunty. I write history and I teach English at Oxford University.
Volker Schröder @marphurius.bsky.social Associate prof of French (emeritus) at Princeton. Working mostly on 17th-cy literature and culture, with a focus on bibliography, including manuscripts and prints. Research blog: anecdota.princeton.edu. Also on Mastodon: @Marphurius@hcommons.social
Tom Wynn @tomofwynnland.bsky.social Professor of French, Durham University. 18c French. Writing book about “Madame Lescombat, the first femme fatale”.
infoclio.ch @infoclio.bsky.social Geschichtsportal der Schweiz / Portail de l'histoire en Suisse / Swiss Digital History Portal. Impressum: http://tinyurl.com/hdbr7qz
Mastodon: @infoclio@fedihum.org
SEMFS (Society for Early Modern French Studies) @semfsuk.bsky.social The official Bluesky of the Society for Early Modern French Studies (SEMFS). Visit us at https://www.semfs.org.uk/ . For our peer-reviewed journal, 'Early Modern French Studies', see https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/yemf20
Malcolm Quinn @malrog.bsky.social Professor of Cultural and Political History UAL, Honorary Professor Bentham Project UCL. Thinks about anti-aesthetics. Read a chapter of my academic work for free:
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10096746/1/Bentham-and-the-Arts.pdf
echo @echo-rhetoric.bsky.social "echo - Center for the Study of Rhetoric between Old and New Media" is a research platform at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social on rhetoric as a practice within and across various media with a methodological anchor in literary studies.
Web: fu-berlin.de/echo
Georgios Varouxakis @georgiosvarouxakis.bsky.social Author of "The West: The History of an Idea" (Princeton University Press, 2025). Professor of the History of Political Thought, Queen Mary University of London.
Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him.
Latest book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-democratic-republic-9781350341517/
Susanne Schregel @sschregel.bsky.social Historian / DFG Heisenberg Research Fellow / University of Cologne
CNRS Sciences humaines & sociales @cnrsshs.bsky.social CNRS Sciences humaines & sociales #shs du @cnrs.fr : 12240 personnels, environ 300 structures de #recherche
🔗 https://www.inshs.cnrs.fr/fr
European Literary London @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social Exploring London through the eyes of Europe's writers, artists and intellectuals:
Online map, travelling exhibition, writer in residence, curating conversations, engaging students & more 📚. Get in touch with ideas!
www.europeanliterarylondon.org
UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social UCL’s hub for research, engagement and teaching on Europe & the EU.
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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute
Uta Staiger @ukstaiger.bsky.social Europeanist [literature, thought, politics] | Directing @uclei.bsky.social | Working with @ucl-global.bsky.social | Curating @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social
Maison Française d'Oxford @mfoxford.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Research Centre associated with the University of Oxford. We support the special link between the French & British academic worlds.
#CNRS #lab UAR 3129
Picture: Maison Française by Bing Ye, 2023